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bluesmaster101
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Posted: 2005-11-03 01:36 CEST | |
AsianMan i think thats what i was trying to say, i guess i didnt say it right hehe  but about the tuba, thats not what i meant. on the tuba the partials arent as close together and if u have a larger mouthpiece then the chances to crack a note is less(not comfort zone) they just have less of a hit:miss ratio.
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tabs_jazz
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Posted: 2006-01-05 04:59 CEST | |
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how about slapbass? those of you that said piano... well i played for about six years and i'm just now getting back into it. my dexterity is terrible, but playing both parts seperatly really isn't that hard to do. when i first started it was hard yes, but i quickly got the hang of it. there are parts that are tricky, like playing triplets with one hand and 8th notes with the other, or playing fivelets in general 
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Trumpet Playing Cellini
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Posted: 2006-03-01 01:40 CEST | |
In my mind, the Hardest instrument to MASTER would be trumpet. There is an infinity amount of things to work on and master with that damn thing that it could take your whole life to completely master. Right now I can hit E3 at highest. The age on my profile is wrong. I am 16 years old. I have been working on a bunch of double tonguing activities as well as flow studies and everything inbetween. At this moment I have been pretty dedicated to writing horn parts for the ska band I am in called the Chimney Sweeps. www.myspace.com/thechimneysweeps My private lesson teacher who to me is a trumpet god says he hasn't even gotten half way to mastering it and that is my reasoning. 4life  4life
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Spaminator 3000
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Posted: 2006-03-01 02:05 CEST | |
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I think you have to take into account the type of parts an instrument plays before judging which is the hardest. I think French horn is probably the toughest accuracy-wise. However, many French horn parts are incredibly easy; they often just play on the upbeats (the "pah" of the "oom-pah"). Trumpets almost always have tough parts in pieces. I play bass a little bit (I don't own one, but I use my school's whenever I can), and I don't think slap bass is that tough. Sure, if you want to play like Victor Wooten with insane tripleted-sixteenth note runs it's hard, but I can play stuff like Can't Stop by the Red Hot Chili Peppers without too much trouble. It does take some practice to be able to slap the second string without hitting the top string, though. Anyway, trumpet seems to have challenges in basically all aspects of music--note accuracy, embouchre, tone and expression, tonguing--so I think it's the hardest. |
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Spaminator 3000
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Posted: 2006-03-01 02:06 CEST | |
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Sgt. Pepper
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Posted: 2006-03-14 07:48 CEST | |
| well besides trumpet (which i consider hard) i also play oboe (i know, how much more random could it get), but i yeah i find oboe very hard to play well. Also i hear that french horn is extremly hard. | ||
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skallege graduate
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Posted: 2006-03-15 03:26 CEST | |
Well I'd say the hardest of the instruments you'd normally see would be trumpet/french horn. I'm a tenor sax player of 5 years and recently i decided to pick up trumpet. I have been playin that for a year and i find it much harder than t. sax. French Horn is also a very challenging instrument to play.
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Kevin
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Posted: 2006-03-16 04:41 CEST | |
| I know that I can't even get a decent sound out of the trumpet but I wouldn't label it as the hardest instrument. I really don't think there is one and it all depends on the player. The hardest sax, on the other hand, in my opinion is the Tenor Sax. I haven't played more than a few notes on a soprano but comparing the Tenor to the Alto and Bari, I definately think it is a harder instrument to master. I find that on both Alto and Bari, it is easy as hell just to get out any old note and you just don't have to work so hard to get that note in tune. I find that the Tenor has alot more fine embouchure adjustments and it's sound is harder to master. I think that Tenor is the most mellow of the saxophones and due to it's range, it is really important to be able to keep an even tibre throughout all registers because Tenors seem to access all the registers more, it's almost like an expectation. This is an opinion that me and some of my friends have come too from not only trying them but listening to people. Alot of people just have a really crappy tone on Tenors and I find that to get a nice [or maybe just decent] tone on an alto or Bari, it is comparitively simple. | ||
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skallege graduate
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Posted: 2006-03-16 05:04 CEST | |
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i agree on with you on the sax opinion. But what i was trying to say is that the brass instruments (buzzing mouthpeices) are more challenging than woodwind instrument...there is no HARDEST instrument though.
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Kevin
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Posted: 2006-03-17 17:27 CEST | |
| The basis of getting a sound out on brass is harder but in a way they are damn lucky because they don't have to worry about reeds. It's also because you played sax for so long the change was noticed more. I personally am not a fan of buzzing [except on my didgeridoo] I tried trombone as my secondary instrument in grade 11 music and I just didn't like it. I also found trombone to be alot easier than I thought it would be. A funny experiment is to get a sax player to switch to clarinet. The blowing and everything is quite different so quite often you get a load of squeeking. I decided to take up clarinet as a secondary instrument and it's been a fair amount of work to adjust and to not sqeek all the time. My friend thought he could play it because the fingerings can be simular to the sax and I just told him that he couldn't. I let him try and I don't think he got one note properly. It was fun. I quite like the clarinet though and it is a good challenge to keep me busy. The one thing to remember is that just because someone can play the sax doesn't mean they can play the clarinet. They both have reeds but are entirely different instruments. | ||
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widby
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Posted: 2006-03-17 18:11 CEST | |
| as bass guitar goes, they're easy enough to pick up and get the basics. But in my school (full of guitarists and bassists) none can solo well, apart from simo--a bassist. I think that says that you can pick up an instrument and learn to play it. But to play it with life and charisma is something else. | ||
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Kevin
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Posted: 2006-03-17 19:34 CEST | |
widby wrote:as bass guitar goes, they're easy enough to pick up and get the basics. But in my school (full of guitarists and bassists) none can solo well, apart from simo--a bassist. I think that says that you can pick up an instrument and learn to play it. But to play it with life and charisma is something else. I agree 100 per cent. I know that it is the exact same with the saxophone players and very true about all instruments. It's about learning the music and how to express yourself musically. There are alot of people who can play their instruments amazingly well technically but their playing has no soul. The hardest part of any instrument is making it an extension of yourself and by that I mean being able to put your soul into your playing because music is an art form. I find once you learn to play any instrument, the techniques are universal so I think there is a hardest instrument and that would have to be the first one you pick up. |
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aquabat
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Posted: 2006-04-12 20:28 CEST | |
| WELL it has to be the harp, no matter how irrelevent it may seem... | ||
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Shizzle
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Posted: 2006-04-17 17:53 CEST | |
| It all ends up playing Vs. mastering. I think you can get the basics of any instrument down in a couple of weeks but to master it is a different story. Every instrument has different techniques, I can't say any one instrument is easier or harder than the next to master all of it's techniques. In fact I doubt anyone in the world could, it would be impossible to master that many instruments to have the ability to say which one was hardest. | ||
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Kevin
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Posted: 2006-04-18 04:03 CEST | |
| and so much stuff is transferable. My friend is an insane soprano vocalist and we talk about things and you'd be surprised how much is in common. The way notes are made and the support required is pretty much universal. I do the same thing when I play high notes as her as she sings high notes. Support and air control is the same. | ||
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skajunkie
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Posted: 2006-07-26 16:55 CEST | |
| for begining and learning...ive heard that sax is the easiest..cause all ya gotta learn is how to play a read amd...2 octives of notes are there...and no holes like clarinet. i've also heard that trumpet was hardest to learn, but im not sure. i think that after you get past the begining stages of any instrument they all kinda take a certian amount of work to get any better. | ||
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Faulk
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Posted: 2006-07-27 14:55 CEST | |
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Ok. To start off, 12 string guitar, yeah, makes a nice sound and is much the same as a 6 string because the strings are kind of in pairs and so you just push both strings down at once. Also, I'm a bassist and yup, slap is wicked cool and not as hard as you think. I use my fret (left) hand to mute the top string if I'm slapping the A string. I agree that the hardest instrument is hard to say and that the level of playing is not defined and can't be...I'm tired. Anyway, this hasn't been mentioned yet but personally, I hate the drums. I'm usually pretty coordinated and I've got good rhythmn and anticipation but for some reason I can't play the drums. The pedals just...don't register in my brain good...I can keep a simple rock beat going but that's it. Trumpet's pretty tough though. I've heard (please correct me) that some orchestra players, because they have to play so high and for so long, can burst blood vessels in their heads (like an anurism but not in the brain) and have blood running out of their ears at the end of a show. That's gotta count towards something. -Faulk
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Faulk
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Posted: 2006-07-28 01:33 CEST | |
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No wait...That's not what an anurism is. And it's spelled aneurism. I though it was a burst blood vessel in the brain but I looked it up in the dictionary and it means something else. |
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